Posted on 01/21/2012 9:16:48 AM PST by pinochet
Why did the Iowa Republican Party decide to announce a Santorum victory, only a day before the South Carolina Primary? http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-21/santorum-declared-iowa-caucuses-winner-by-state-party-leaders.html#
It requires no more than 4 days after the announcement of the initial results, to conduct a fully certified recount, because relatively few people vote in the Iowa Caucuses. The reason why they announced Santorum as the winner of Iowa at this time, is to get some supporters of Gingrich to vote for Santorum, in order to split the conservative vote and assure a victory for Romney.
American elections have become as corrupt as the elections in Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, North Korea, Congo, Russia, and Chicago. In other words, American elections have become third world elections.
What really surprised me is the behavior of the Iowa Republican Party. Iowans are supposed to be good, solid, middle American Christians, who represent the values of honesty, honor, character, and integrity. The rest of America looks up to Iowa, in order to learn real American values. But, apparently, Chicago-style corruption has penetrated the American heartland, affecting a people whom were thought to be resistant to third world types of corruption. Santorum had no money to offer the Iowa Republican Party, while Romney was pouring tens of millions of dollars into the state. Apparently, Romney had to be rewarded for the money he spent in Iowa, by intially declaring him the winner, despite the fact that he had lost. The announcement of Romney as the initial winner of Iowa, gave him hundreds of millions of dollars worth of positive media publicity, and boosted him in the polls.
Personally, I don't think it makes that much difference as the numbers are what they are. Santorum made huge strides and he accomplished more than anyone would have ever expected.
Santorum is a perfect example of how the Iowa caucus can give someone a chance who has very little money. Everyone had an equal chance to impress the voters.
All future candidates who may come to participate in the Iowa caucus should feel reassured every vote is counted and everyone is treated fairly.
This does not mean it is perfect but it's as perfect as humans can get it.
As I said, the FReepers who are worried about corruption really should do some research about how blatant and obvious corruption is in 3rd World countries. I’m talking about in-your-face- bribery with money being paid for favors with the full knowledge of the authorities.
In some Latin countries, hardly any business of any kind gets done without the “mordida” (bite, bribe...”soborno” being the correct Spanish word) being paid.
We may have slipped to some extent as a country but I think that on our side at least there is still a desire to do things honestly.
We need to be vigilant to keep it that way, or to make things better.
Just to be clear, “Altogether the votes from the eight missing precincts would have extended Rick Santorum’s victory over Mitt Romney from 34 votes to 69.”
The ‘missing’ precincts have published vote totals that no one disputes. What is missing is the ‘E-forms’ that should have been filled out by precinct chairs. These are the official certifications of the vote totals.
What do you suggest Augusto, a coo deh tah?
Amen!!
No, this just tells you how lame the Iowa Republican Party has been over the last 50 years.
In 1950, Iowa had 8 representatives in congress; all 8 were Republicans. In 2010, Iowa has 5 representatives; 3 democrats, 2 Republicans. We will lose another representative in 2012, so there will probably be 3 democrats and 1 Republican in the house from Iowa.
Also tells you how much this state has been dying over the last 50 years. Go to almost any rural county in Iowa, and the population under the age of 70 is almost non-existant.
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